To me, beauty is a lived thing.

It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

I leave the politics at the office when I go out.